Friday, March 14, 2008

GARDEN BLOGGERS BLOOM DAY - March 2008

I headed out into the yard today, to see if any bulbs were starting to come up. As you can see, there is still a fair amount of snow in my yard (this being Utah, and all).

As I had hoped, there were a few bulbs coming up, here and there, and a fair amount of evidence that there were bunnies hopping around in the yard. I am surprised these tender starts had not been nibbled on. It was wonderful to get back out in the yard, even if it meant hiking over crunchy snow piles. And then- surprise! I saw real flowers- two little crocus are my earliest bloomers of the year!

13 comments:

Muums... I thought when I saw your first picture with all that snow that you wouldn't have any blooms, but YOU DO. Look at those pretty little crocuses. What would we do in the early spring without them?

How exciting to find crocuses blooming after looking out at all that snow. I'd feel discouraged. (Yesterday when it hit 95 degrees in Austin, I was wishing some of you northern gardeners would send us some snow, though.)

This month and next month are the best in my Austin garden. And then it gets too hot for anything (including me) to bloom happily.

thanks for everyone's comments! It has been a long winter, with record amounts of snow here. (Global warming? snort!) Annie, the shoots are tulips. I finally regrouped them into one place (maybe a little too close together,from the looks of those shoots). The bunnies do like them, so I am surprised they haven't been nibbled on, yet! We won't see peonies for another month, I'd guess.